This landscape of an unidentified Island by painter Joseph Floch resembles the East and West Egg neighborhoods described in The Great Gatsby, not because of the island, but because of the two masses of land - east and west - which flank it. The two landmasses are painted vaguely like cultivated fields, but so vaguely that one can, without much difficulty, imagine them to be not fields but neighborhoods. One can imagine Gatsby, on a night similar to the one depicted in the painting, looking out from the shores of west egg to the green light of Daisy's boat dock on east egg. The green light was symbolic of the American dream, the biggest and most elusive part of the American identity, and in this already grand painting one can project that idea of looking forward, from one shore to the other, towards the unreachable future.
This landscape of an unidentified Island by painter Joseph Floch resembles the East and West Egg neighborhoods described in The Great Gatsby, not because of the island, but because of the two masses of land - east and west - which flank it. The two landmasses are painted vaguely like cultivated fields, but so vaguely that one can, without much difficulty, imagine them to be not fields but neighborhoods. One can imagine Gatsby, on a night similar to the one depicted in the painting, looking out from the shores of west egg to the green light of Daisy's boat dock on east egg. The green light was symbolic of the American dream, the biggest and most elusive part of the American identity, and in this already grand painting one can project that idea of looking forward, from one shore to the other, towards the unreachable future.
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